Green Lantern Corps #8 Review

Trouble is brewing among the Alpha Lanterns.

All superhero comics need to take some downtime and have a little fun with the characters, and Green Lantern books are no exception. Pete Tomasi follows up his first arc on the new series with a short interlude focused mainly on Guy Gardner. After all, there's no better GL for clowning around with. But that's not to say this issue has no bearing on the larger picture either. It's a winning blend of levity and plot-building that shows the the entire creative team at their best.

This is the first issue of the book to deal with Sinestro's status quo, as Guy and his fellow Lanterns work to bury the Sinestro Corps power battery and hopefully put that particular threat to bed for good. Along the way there's some tomfoolery in Guy's bar and some amusing interaction with the Guardians to spice things up.

But Tomasi also builds towards an impending conflict with the Alpha Lanterns. Overall, the book is shaking off whatever troubles it ran into in recent issues and offering a storyline that is both fun and rewarding to longtime GL readers. The one area the book could still stand some improvement with is John Stewart. Even Guy remarks how his fellow Earthman has been more glum than usual lately. It's high time we see another side to John. Sadly, that doesn't look to be in the cards anytime soon.

Fernando Pasarin makes a welcome return with this issue. His pages are, as always, fantastically detailed and well laid out. His art carries a slightly lighter tone this time around thanks both to the humor in the story and the lack of severed limbs. Pasarin's work is a good way to kick off a new storyline for the Corps.

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